“Mum!”
Something lurches inside me.
“We tried to stop her-”
She throws herself against me, small arms around my waist. I raise a hand to touch her hair. Dark, like mine. When was the last time I wrapped it between my fingers to tie a braid. Was it mine, or hers?
She turns her head up to look at me. Her eyes are filled with tears. I cup her face. I see my mother in her browline, my father in her nose, I see…
“Mum?”
a place of words 
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